52

A Miracle

The man's face was drained of blood, and so was Ernest's. Almost everyone who came face to face with the Spirits would have the same look on their face, pale with shock, gaped mouth, and trembling lips.

But for the husband and wives that stood before a cloaked member of the Spirits, knowing that they both had gambled their souls to them, they were frozen with fear. Breathing became a difficult thing to do, and they had been holding their breaths now since he entered.

"I am here to take them," the man calmly said. Janet's eyes watched its pale grey lips move slightly.

Without saying anything, Janet, who was determined to keep the twins earlier that she is willing to fight her husband for it, stepped aside to let the cloaked man make his way to the twins.

She must have recognized that she cannot do anything at all.

Gathering her courage to find her voice and speak, she spun in her heels to face the man. She looked into its black, hollow eyes, and in a terrified voice, she aske